Это чувство, когда не можешь понять, о чём поётся в песне, лезешь за словами, читаешь их, всё равно ничего не можешь понять, прокручиваешь вниз посмотреть комментарии, а там полотна вроде этого:
Actually, I understand this song completely - first part is about her being back in her home town where she had that young (possibly first) love, and she is now walking with her past love as the two of them remember: "Whipping past, the reflecting pool, me and you, skipping school..." "And we make it up as we go along" means that neither can completely remember all the details, but they remember things as they are walking around, details that remind them of their love and youth. At one point he remembers that he raced from Langley, a town, to see her, possibly while he was at college or away, and he remembers kissing/embracing her under the Cherry Blossoms (beautiful picture, btw). Then, it's a sad scene where they remember the break-up, he asks if she has photographs of him, so she can remember him (irony because they are now remembering), and she says of course she does, and she captures his face as they are saying good-bye "Sun on your face, I'm freezing the frame." She tells him how she remembers the sun on his face when they said goodbye. Then there's a reference to a movie line - Alfie is a character who gets his heart broken and cries saying "Enjoy his every smile." Now they're walking again and he says "How did it go so fast," their youth, their love, their lives, and they both realize how much they lost and how much it really all meant - but it's too late because although it was gold, it was gold dust, blew away before they knew it was golden.
They continue to walk through the town, the night is now falling, and they continue "make it up as we go", remembering their past and different people "Names hang in the air" as they can't quite remember the names of the people in their class or youth, but they can remember details - "What color hair did she have?" "I think auburn." It is irony because as the evening is falling, they are once again parting, as they did long time ago... Then there is a skip closer to the present, her daughter is being born, and she is in a new time in her life, as things usually are when a child arrives. She's "Freezing that frame" just like she did of her first love, because she now knows she will one day look at this moment and remember it, she knows it is all "gold dust" and will be gone, so now she can "see with the eyes of Laura Mars" - i.e. can see like the character did that one day she will miss this moment and look back on it in sentimental recollection... But unlike with her life and her first love, she now knows life is fleeting and it is all gold dust, and she knows one day she or someone else she's walking with will look past on her daughter's childhood and life, much like she looked at her own, and they will say, "How did it go so fast," "we held gold dust in our hands."
In other words, we will always underappreciate what we have until it's too late to truly enjoy it, but in a way that's what makes it beautiful, because gold dust wouldn't be so special were it not so frail and temporary in the wind.
Это прямо как уроки литературы, сочинения на тему "Антирелигиозные мотивы в творчестве Маяковского", разбор отдельных фраз, мммм.
Actually, I understand this song completely - first part is about her being back in her home town where she had that young (possibly first) love, and she is now walking with her past love as the two of them remember: "Whipping past, the reflecting pool, me and you, skipping school..." "And we make it up as we go along" means that neither can completely remember all the details, but they remember things as they are walking around, details that remind them of their love and youth. At one point he remembers that he raced from Langley, a town, to see her, possibly while he was at college or away, and he remembers kissing/embracing her under the Cherry Blossoms (beautiful picture, btw). Then, it's a sad scene where they remember the break-up, he asks if she has photographs of him, so she can remember him (irony because they are now remembering), and she says of course she does, and she captures his face as they are saying good-bye "Sun on your face, I'm freezing the frame." She tells him how she remembers the sun on his face when they said goodbye. Then there's a reference to a movie line - Alfie is a character who gets his heart broken and cries saying "Enjoy his every smile." Now they're walking again and he says "How did it go so fast," their youth, their love, their lives, and they both realize how much they lost and how much it really all meant - but it's too late because although it was gold, it was gold dust, blew away before they knew it was golden.
They continue to walk through the town, the night is now falling, and they continue "make it up as we go", remembering their past and different people "Names hang in the air" as they can't quite remember the names of the people in their class or youth, but they can remember details - "What color hair did she have?" "I think auburn." It is irony because as the evening is falling, they are once again parting, as they did long time ago... Then there is a skip closer to the present, her daughter is being born, and she is in a new time in her life, as things usually are when a child arrives. She's "Freezing that frame" just like she did of her first love, because she now knows she will one day look at this moment and remember it, she knows it is all "gold dust" and will be gone, so now she can "see with the eyes of Laura Mars" - i.e. can see like the character did that one day she will miss this moment and look back on it in sentimental recollection... But unlike with her life and her first love, she now knows life is fleeting and it is all gold dust, and she knows one day she or someone else she's walking with will look past on her daughter's childhood and life, much like she looked at her own, and they will say, "How did it go so fast," "we held gold dust in our hands."
In other words, we will always underappreciate what we have until it's too late to truly enjoy it, but in a way that's what makes it beautiful, because gold dust wouldn't be so special were it not so frail and temporary in the wind.
Это прямо как уроки литературы, сочинения на тему "Антирелигиозные мотивы в творчестве Маяковского", разбор отдельных фраз, мммм.
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